Social History Archive
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THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers' speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them. -
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsCatalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age. -
Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThough textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
The Lecherous Pseudo-Anubis of Josephus and the
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWhile a variety of sources testify to the expulsion of foreign priests from Rome under Tiberius, Josephus is the only ancient author to explain the Emperor -
Hierarchy of Women within Elite Families. Iconographic Data from the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWhen the hierarchy of women is concerned, the range of data is limited, since women were virtually excluded from the bureaucracy, and the number of their own tombs is relatively low. In spite of this, over recent decades the studies focusing on women have been steadily increasing our knowledge on the position and roles of women in the Egyptian society of the Old Kingdom -
Information-gathering and the strategic use of culture in Herodotus
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsHerodotus -
The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis aims to investigate the women of ancient Egypt with regards to their relationship with the goddess Hathor. Hathor is one of the most popular Egyptian deities, and arguably (until she was assimilated by Isis during later Egyptian history) the most popular deity among the women of Egypt. -
The role of the chantress in ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe goal of this study is to determine what it meant to be a Sm-r, or chantress, in ancient Egypt. Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Surprisingly, there is also a male version of the title, Smr, but the female version is by far the more prevalent. It is the women who held this title that will be the focus of this study. -
Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe following thesis developed out of a desire to understand the process behind identity formation in the ancient world.
